Railway-rail joint.



B. B. ELY.

RAILWAY RAIL JOINT.

APPLICATION nuzn MAR. 23. 1915.

Patented Sept. 19, 1916.

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APPLlCATlON FILED MAR. 23, I915.

.UNITED STATES PATENT orries...

BENJAMIN B. ELY, 01 MON'IPELIER, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALE T GEQRGE ELY, OF MONTPELIER, INDIANA.

RAILWAY-RAIL J OIN T.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 19, 1816.

Application filed March 23, 1915. Serial No. 16,430.

T 0 all whom it may concern Be it known that I, BENJAMIN B. ELY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Montpelier, in the county of Blackford and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Railway-Rail Joints, of which the following is a specification.

This invention' relates to improvements in railway rail joints, and has as one of its means of which a broken or impaired rail may be replaced without discarding the members constituting the joint.

\Vith these and other objects in View, the invention consists in certain novel features of construction as hereinafter shown and described and then specifically pointed out in the claims; and in the drawings illustrative of the preferred embodiment of the invention, Fig. l is a side elevation of the abutting ends of a pair of rails with the improvement applied. Fig. 2 is a plan view from beneath of the parts shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a transverse section enlarged 0n the line 33 of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a detached perspective view from beneath of a portion of one of the clamp members. Fig. 5 is a sectional detail on the line 55 of Fig. 3

of one of the reinforcing members.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the following description and indicated in all the views of the accompanying drawings by the same reference characters.

The improved device includes clamp members of uniform width throughout their entire length bearing upon opposite sides of the confronting portions of a pair of rails. Each clamping member comprises an upper portion hearing against the webs of the rails and having its upper edge directed outwardly to form a reinforcing flange 11 and bearing beneath the head of the rail, an intermediate portion 12 bearing over the flange of the rail, and a lower portion 13 hearing beneath the flange of the rail. The body portions 10 of the clamp members are united to the webs of the rails 1%l15 by the usual clamp bolts 16 and clamp nuts 17 Formed upon the lower faces of the lower flange engaging webs 18 are transverse bearings 18 to receive clamp bolts 19, the latter each having a head 20 at one end and a nut :21 at the other end and operating to firmly unite the clamp devices beneath the rail. Any required number of the bolts 19 may be employed but usually three will be sufficient, as shown. One of the bolts 19 is located centrally of the improved device and immediately beneath the joint between the terminals of the rails, as shown. The central portion of one of the clamp members is enlarged laterally in the form of an integral web 22 which is located opposite the confronting terminals of the adjacent rails let-15 and disposed entirely within the lines of the adjacent reinforcing flange 11. The enlarged web reinforces the member 10 on which it is formed and extends downwardly as shown at 23 and merges into the central bearing 18 to receive the central clamp bolt 19 with the nut 21 bearing against the downwardly directed portion. The enlargement 9.223 materially increases the strength of the device and reinforces the same at the point where the greatest strains occur. The enlargement 2223 is thus an important and material feature of the improved device.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is:

' 1. The combination with a pair of rails abutting end to end, of a sectional clamping member bearing against the contiguous web portions and beneath the flange portions of said rails and spanning the junction thereof, each section of said clamping member having an outwardly directed reinforcing flange extending the entire length thereof and conforming to and bearing beneath the head portions of the rails, spaced transverse bolt receiving enlargements depending from said sections beneath the flange engaging portions and adapted to register with each other, one pair of said enlargements being located opposite the juncture of the rails, and a vertical reinforcement conforming to the shape of and integral with the body of bearing beneath the head portions of the rails bolt receiving enlargements depending from said clamp members and beneath the flange engaging portions and adapted to register with each other, one pair of said onlargements being located opposite he juncture of the rails, and a vertical reinforce ment conforming to the shape of and integral With the body of one of the clamp nembers and spanning the junction of the rails and merging into the reinforcing flange and into the adjacent bolt receiving enlargement.

3. The combination with a pair of rails abutting end to nd, of a clamping member bearing against the contiguous Web portions and beneath the flange portions of said rails and spanning the junction thereof, said clamping member having an outwardly directed reinforcing flange extending the entire length thereof and conforming to and bearing beneath the head portions of the rails, bolt receiving enlar ements depending from said clamp member and beneath the flange engaging portions, one of said enlargements being iocated opposite the juncture of the rails and a vertical reinforcement conforming to the shape of and integra with the body of said clamp member and spanning the junction of the rails and merging into the reinforcing flange and into the adjacent bolt receiving enlargement.

In testimony whereof I afliX my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

BENJAMIN B. ELY. iVitnesses:

D. M. Tnwnsnnnr, DELLA M. VVILsoN.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents. Washington, D. C. 

